Handwriting OCR

Recognise handwritten English text from an image using TrOCR — runs entirely in your browser, no upload required.

This tool downloads ~250 MB (TrOCR model). Recommended on desktop with a stable connection. Once downloaded, the model is cached and future visits are instant.

TrOCR is optimised for single-line English handwriting. Multi-line images may produce lower quality results.

About the Model

Source: Xenova/trocr-small-handwritten

License: MIT

English handwriting recognition — transformers.js image-to-text, ~250MB (desktop opt-in size policy). Single-line optimised.